The Ultimate getURL for php
If you are in need of a complete curl function for php, this is your answer: getURL()
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function getURL($url,$fields=null,$method=null,$file=null){
// author = Ighor Toth <igtoth@gmail.com>
// required:
// url = include http or https
// optionals:
// fields = must be array (e.g.: 'field1' => $field1, ...)
// method = "GET", "POST"
// file = if want to download a file, declare store location and file name (e.g.: /var/www/img.jpg, ...)
// please crete 'cookies' dir to store local cookies if neeeded
// do not modify below
$useragent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko';
$timeout= 240;
$dir = dirname(__FILE__);
$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] ?? '127.0.0.1';
$cookie_file = $dir . '/cookies/' . md5($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) . '.txt';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "" );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com/');
if($file!=null){
if (!curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $file)){ // Handle error
die("curl setopt bit the dust: " . curl_error($ch));
}
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $file);
$timeout= 3600;
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );
if($fields!=null){
$postvars = http_build_query($fields); // build the urlencoded data
if($method=="POST"){
// set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postvars);
}
if($method=="GET"){
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
$url = $url.'?'.$postvars;
}
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
if (!$content){
$error = curl_error($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
die("cURL request failed, error = {$error}; info = " . print_r($info, true));
}
if(curl_errno($ch)){
echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
return $content;
}
curl_close($ch);
}